The Singapore Free Press, 14 January 1956

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press Largest Afternoon Sale m Malaya No. *****. Singapore. Saturday. January 14. 1956. Price 15 CU.
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  • 139 1 STRIPPING: MINISTER SHOCKED SELANGOR'S Executive Committee will decide today what form an Inquiry should take Into allegations that security forces -British troops and the police had forced several women at Semenyih, 21 miles from Kuala Lumpur, to strip naked when beiim searched, that they had been slapped and had been
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  • 46 1 The new Jordan Premier. Mr. Samir Ratfai, decided r.sterday to end today the curfew imposed on Amman, Jerusalem and other Jordan towns after recent riots iver attempts to enlist Jordan m the Bagdad dei nee pact. An official announcement iid the .situation had imroved
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  • 104 1 rE executive committee of the British League against Cruel Sports yesterday criticised the Queen Mother for taking Prince Charles and Princess Anne to a fox hunt near Sandringham the previous day. The committee declared that It "deeply deplores that the Queen and the
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  • 80 1 'Ban British Anthem' A MOTION to abolish "God Save the Queen" as the national anthem was tabled m South Africa's new parliament yesterday. The same motion also asked that the Union Jack should no longer be recognised as the official "God Save the Queen,' the British National Anthem and the
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  • 11 1 Syria and Lebanon will include a defence pact.— U.P.
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  • 26 1 The Singapore Telephone tfoard and Its employees union have reached agreement on the wage structures of all employees except those for about 130 jperators.
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  • 22 1 About 29 people wore injured last night when two metro underground trains collided m Central Paris, nolice officials said.- Reuter
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  • 18 1 The government of Cyprus announced yesterday that six Famußiista boys were flogged for anti-Bri-tish rioting. A.P.
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  • 175 1 Britain seizes tank tracks going to Belgium HUNDREDS «»f t° ns of tank tracks due for shipment to Belgium in a Dutch motor vessel have been seized »>y Customs at the South Wales port of Cardiff. ustoms oflicial said last niyht that the owner had to claim within a month
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  • 366 1 I DON'T BELIEVE CHIN PENG RAHMAN SAYS MALAYA IS GLAD TO LEAVE DEFENCE IN BRITAIN'S HANDS THE Federation Chief Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman, said m London last night that he did not believe the Malayan Communist promise to quit fighting if Malaya's internal defence was transferred to British hands. Tengku
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  • 281 1 Show-down expected next month OPPOSITION parties m the Singapore Legislative Assembly are reported to be renewing efforts to form a new coalition Government. They claim that three or four members of the Labour Front may cross the floor. An AsseVnblyman chosen from the new Liberal Socialist Party,
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  • 52 1 Soviet geographers recently collaborated with the Russian National Academy of Sciences to carry out a series of expeditions to explore a new ocean route to Asia via the Arctic. The disclosure was made by Professor Garayinor. a Russian delegate to the international geography seminar held at
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  • 30 1 The Singapore Rubber Market opened this morning on a weak tone with first grade, January shipment, at $1.14' H a lb., half a cent below yesterday's closing price.
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  • 65 1 Negotiation., between shipowners and union representatives broke down in Sydney yesterday and observers feared that a strike on Jan. 23 affecting 53 Australian ports was inevitable. Union negotiators, representing 27.000 members of 18 dockside unions, refused I to lower their demand for a one shilling hourly increase
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  • 31 1 Indonesia's economy is growing stronger and her dollar reserves have Increased substantially, according to the annual report of the American-Indo-nesian Chamber of Commerce published m New p York.- A.P.
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  • 177 2 SOUTH Vietnam's Revolutionary Committee which helped President Ngo Dinh Diem to power, has accused him of "dictatorial" behaviour. The charge came only 24 hours after two committee deputy chairmen and six members announced the committee's dissolution on the grounds that its work was finished. Committee president
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  • 29 2 Czech Foreign Minister Vaclav David said m Prague yesterday that financial and trade talks with Britain, broken off m 1954. should be resumed shortly.- Reuter
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  • 127 2 Closer R1C'wealth links hope THE Indonesian embassy m London said that Foreign Minister Anak Agung Gde Agung would leave London by air for Geneva today after a very satisfactory four-day official visit to Britain. There has been no disposition m London to discount suggestions that Anak Agung impressed on his
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  • 184 2 SONGGRAM REJECTS NEUTRALITY— WE WON'T OUT SEATO 9 PREMIER Phibul Songgram of Siam said yester- day his country would not copy India and Burma m their neutral policies. Siam joined the anti-Communist SEATOPaa to maintain strength and preserve peace *Our aim -to prvsvrrv pvaev*
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  • 163 2 SECURITY FOR SEATO TALKS STRICT security precautions have been brought into force at Melbourne's Victoria Barracks Australia's defence headquarters m preparation for week-long talks, starting on Tuesday, which will be attended by representatives of the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation. High-ranking representatives of the Seato countries due m Melbourne on the
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  • Article, Illustration
    41 2 picture. Diana Yew, who gave a I -Little Sheba" per- I formance at the Talen- time and Vaudeville I Stars show at the Singapore Badminton Stadium last night. She won bi& applause from the audience for I I it.- Free Press
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  • 84 2 T>RITISH housewives re- joieed yesterday another drQp m food prl —the second this week. Continuing Thursday. trend, when tea. bacon poultry fresh meat and eggs all took price cuts, on« large provision store with 200 branches m the South of England announced yesterday that
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  • 117 2 A FORMER Polish Premier urged yesterday that Asian nations awaken from what he called their "passive attitude" towards the "greatest danger" now confronting Asia— Soviet colonialism. Recently returned from a tour of Japan. Mr. Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, Premier of the war-time Polish Government m exile
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  • 45 2 The bodies of four massacred American missionaries have been recovered from the "green hell" jungles of Eastern Ecuador and there is only a remote chance" that a fifth survived a savage Indian attack, it was reported m Quito yesterday U.P.
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  • 34 2 Countess Heleno Toerring, 18-year-old niece of the Duchess of Kent, said m Munich yesterday .she would marry Archduke Ferdinand of Austria who is 37 at the beginning of April. Reuter
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  • 281 2 BIG 3 STUDY CENSURE MOVE ON ISRAEL T»HE Western Big Three went into consultations late yesterday m an effort to see whether their resolution proposing censure of Israel for its December 11 attack on Syrian forces could be amended to obtain unanimity. It was learned that representatives of Britain, France
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  • 23 3 A radio photo service to Japan between Bombay and Tokyo will be opened "within the next few weeks. j U.P.
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    287 3 DULLES LASHED FOR BRINK OF WAR' ARTICLE BRITISH newspapers expressed inclrTauiity and alarm at a Life magazine article in which the S. Secretary of State, Mr. John foster Dulles, was quoted as saying the United States had three times been on the brink of war with Red China
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  • 37 3 The thirteenth child was born on Friday the 13th to Mr. and Mrs. George Hartsen m Cheboygan, Michigan. It was an eight-lb. bo\\ The Hanserus now have eight daughters and five .sons.
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  • 170 3 'Better tyre now under test pETROLEUM WEEK magazine m New York holds out the possibility of an all-Butyl tyre with wearing qualities longer than any other synthetic or natural rubber tyre. Key basic ingredients going into butyl rubber are petroleum derived. A prototype of the
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  • 270 3 A $150,000 GEM SMUGGLER GETS 3 YEARS He told 'mosaic of lies 9 REGINALD JOHN MORFETT, former chief I**' steward aboard the Cunard Liner Assyria, was jailed for three years and fined $15,000 in New York yesterday for taking $150,000 worth of diamonds into the United States "contrary to law."
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  • 147 3 Wolf leaped and down came a plane A WOLF took a mighty leap and knocked down a low-flying aero- plane. The small ski -plane was wrecked. The two occupants, uninjured, were marooned miles from shelter before they were found by a rescue party several hours later on Thursday. Jack Burgess.
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  • 16 3 A strong earthquake shook Athens last night but no damage was immediately reported. Reuter
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  • 30 3 A Greek Cypriot was shot dead last night by two masked men m Nicosia. The two men fired three shots from a cafe garden and ran away. U.P.
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  • 41 3 Two of the "Bis Three' of the U.S. car industryGeneral Motors and Chrysler yesterday reported that adjustments m production schedules will result m layoffs affecting nearly 7,500 employees. Ford previously reported a layoff of 4,60u workers
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  • 132 3 UNITED STATES airways are becoming so crowded and are so inadequately regulated, a special government advisory group said yesterday, that airliners have brushes with death an average of four times daily. "Ever more dangerous conditions m the air can be anticipated unless some urgent
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  • 61 3 A runaway freight tram thundered downhill into a unlbus at Koppaberg, Sweden, m a head-on crash that killed at l( 20 school children. Railroad employees *uw 1 the disaster coming and worked frantically to stop the train and evacuate the rail bus, but could not avert
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  • 229 4 The Singapore Free Press SATURDAY, Jan. 14, 1956. Opinion SURPRISE NO. 1 I FOUR GURKHA sol- diers out for a driving lesson m a police vehicle have been am bushed near Seremban and two of them have been seriously injured. Ambushes are not rare occurrences m the Federation and should
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  • 607 4  - The new W ehrmacht weeds out the Weaklings ANTONY TERRY by rpHE first 800 men of West Germany's new "tough guy" army of half a million men stamped on to the parade-ground here at Andernach for the first time on New Year's Day and cracked up a salute that would
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  • 514 4 Life will be good for them says NORMAN LINDHURST (GERMANY'S new Gls will get paid less than the American GI but they will have some compensation for this for they won't have to do kitchen work. While the new German soldiers are paying their final farewells to the old folks
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  • 165 5 SEVERAL of the public lorongs off u Singapore's Geylang Road, whose poor condition is worrying residents there, have been marked down by the City Council for major repairs and maintenance work this year. 'We shall be spending more time and money on these lorongs than in
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  • 166 5 pVERY day since ChrLstmas foreman Les Lewis and six men have been adding 700 bricks to the new red brick wall that now stands six feet high m the middle of Canterbury and now they'll have to pull it all down again
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  • 121 5 A PILOT shut down, a sound engine Instead ol v drh'ctive one. says a Ministry of Transport report, and that caused the crash-landing at London Airport last June of a BOAC twin-engined Dove. It was difficult to find an explanation for the mistake, says the
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  • 852 5 (Hiiiiii OK ENGLAND St. Andrew's Cathedral: 7 a.m i Holy Communion, 8 a.m. Sung Eucharbt and Parian Communion; 9.30 a.m. Sunday School, 10 30 a.m. Matins; 11 a.m. Mandarin Service; 1145 a.m. Holy Communion; 6 p.m. Evensong. St. Hilda's C huroh— Ratong 7 a.m. Holy Communion; 8
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  • 97 5 A DOCTOR'S lamily saloon which has known only the streets of a South-W.-.-t London subub. will bo among the 105 British racing the tough Alpine conditions of the Monte Curio Rally starting on Monday. The doctor, 38-year-old Dudley Barker, of Streatham. fislted his patients
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  • 37 5 The pre-war beach at Eastbourne is coming back— at a cost of well over £100.--000. Until 1940 the town council regularly repaired and renewed the 90 groynes along Its five miles of forellftOMb
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 140 6 MA\DBAKE by Lee Falk and Phil Davis I AIE/W by Edgar Rice Burroughs I f-. C-L: -j. >.*c g s^ ■■SOS*'*-- crc;7 E *K?\ TIIE SAI VI' by Leslie Charieris JAKE by Hubbard f' YOU MEAN GEORGE WANTS YOuXI^BUT DOSSn'T HE THINK /T SEE.MS TMIS IS A \V IT'S FAAfCY
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    • 639 6 j| I>ORN today, you are ambitious and <► <> IS like excitement and activity about <► <" you all the time. Original and dra- J! o matic with a real gift for seeing o <> beauty m everything that goes on around you, you will be able to o portray
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  • Round the World Market Prices
    • 159 7 LONDONN, Jan. 13. ■eSSL'E** RSS uwau no. i *s S spot 34 buyers 33^ |1 RUBBER n«i i B«c s^,^^., 34% se»«rs 33^ sellers m»m?r?!_ 33* buyers 33 buyers RCRBERNnTl RS^ftLtl«»«i SS S Ucre 33 Vi sellers HooZtwL J.rrw 8ettk e t 33 M 1 buyers Term.
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    • 94 7 TO Straits spot and nearby 106.12 nom. 105.75 nom. TIN fa tores January 104.00 bid 103.50 bid n_. 105.00 asked 104 50 asked *>hr*ary IOS.00 bid 102 50 bid M 103.75 asked 103.50 asked apcb 102.00 bid 101.50 bid Tovf- r.«j. «»~j_ 1030 a5ked 102 asked I?*ul!^.
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    • 42 7 Spot M labir and Lampong J5. awaiting release 35. aflouts 34 >* to 34, Jan. 33. Malabar Jan./ Mar. 324. Sarawak spot and awaiting release 31 »4 afloats 31. Jan. 30 Sellers ex-dock. Above prices quoted m U.S. cents per tt>.
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    • 37 7 NEW YORK. Jan. 13. Today Today St Industrials 481.80 481 80 2« Railroads 160.11 160 68 40 Domestic Wanda 98 66 98 70 tilitics 63.91 64 01 64 Slocks Composite Average 170.36 170 58
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    • 112 7 COPRA Philippine cXf. U.K..' North European dHivcrod weight per lone ton Feb. Mar. (OPKA Philippine, f.o.b. Manila In balk per ton COPRA Straits eJJ. IK North European delirerrd weight per lone ton Jan./ Feb. Frb./March JOCONTJT OIL erade StraltJ eji. UK/North European la balk, per long
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  • 288 7 *A FAIR AIRMAN IN TROPICAL KIT T*HE GLORY, the 13,-000-ton air- craft carrier, has a ghost. The man who says he has seen it 28--year-old Harry Myerthall. The Glory is being refitted at Rosyth. Harry, a painter-labourer, is working on her. He
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  • 143 7 3 SADLER'S WELLS DANCERS FOR XL r VO talented young Singapore ballot dancer Miss Soonee Goh there Is no reason why Malaya cannot have its own national ballet company to give I proper training to future Margot Fonteyns. Embarking on the first step to this,
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  • 54 7 10 years— and no chance John Ramsay, 50-year-old safe-blower, wanted one more chance. His plea was rejected by the High Court In Edinburgh. He was sent- to ten years' preventive detention for breaking into a Glasgow garage. Ramsay, formerly known Ha Ramensky, was froed during the war to teach Command-
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  • 56 7 The campaign to make King's Lynn. Norfolk, the tidiest town m Britain, has entered the "get tough" stage. Mrs. Joan Tidd, 32, of Queen Street, was the first person summoned under the town's anti-litter by-law. She was fined £2 for dropping fish and chip paper
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  • 154 7 THE Nanyang University's administrative offices m Singapore will now be m the Hill Street premises of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce instead of at East Coast Drive, about seven miles away. The offices will occupy the first floor of the Chamber building. The two
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  • WORLD NEWS IN PICTURES
    • 440 9 picture. picture. picture. picture. picture. picture. picture. picture. Above: It looks like disaster for 18-year-old Dennis Gagnon, at the top of the 75-foot ski jump at Mm- neapolis. But he survived the ski somersault with nothing worse than a pair of broken skis. A.P. Bricks and
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    • 36 9 SINGAPORE CITY COUNCIL ELECTRICITY DEPARTMENT YOU* M€AN$ OF urn TABLE COOKERS... Especially designed to accommodate local Kwalis are available on hire at only 50 cents per month, Consult your Electrical Contractor or Ring 2419 Ext. 352
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  • 699 10  - 1— The missing letter KATHLEEN HICKLEY Jfoiaf M $L tfotuuf Sif 44 ET'S have a look at k the letter again, Lee." begged Wahab. Lee fumbled m his pocket, handed over a now much-crumpled envelope, and grinned. "You can read it until you're cross-eyed," he said, "but it still doesn't
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  • 239 10 IN SPITE OF SCIENCE- IN SPITE of the development of electronic wonder weapons, men of the fighting forces still rely on the German shepherd police dog to perform sensitive security and reconnaissance missions The radar of the Infantry," as the German shepherd dogs are
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  • 301 10 When Ruoert has descended the rocks carefully he and the eari set off rapidly keeping as neu as they can to the cliffs. At last his eye lights on what he is hoping to see and he dans lorwird. ''Here it is," he cries, pon.in^
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  • 70 10 r T HE winners of last week's Colouring Conte.t (to MCb of whom the $5 prize will be sent in due count) are: (1) Miss IN salind Rennle (11), 6. Duku Road. Singapore 15. (2) Miss Jo Chay <8> 15. Jalan Yaliya Awal, Johore Bahru. (S\ Master I
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 188 10 1 1 CUES ACEOSS:— I, UN Security Council's one-time Russian president. 7. Show with performing animals. clowns. etc. 8, A mother fox. 9. The Grande" is the name of two Braiilian rivers. 11. Poet's word for "*yes." IS, Direction m which the sun sets. 14. A sailor'.s word for "yes."
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  • 1667 11  - THE WHITE NIGHTS OF LENINGRAD MAURICE EDELMAN by Another story to set you guessing for this tale of Russia could be true MAIKKi: i;i>KLM\\ is equally adroit at mustering voters and readers. He has been Socialist MP for one of the Coventry divisions smut I<U.*> and has also turned acclaim
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    • 14 11 Pill) yrslrrday-s story- THK Kl>S by Dwlw Robinsa< tually happen? The answer Is: hs.
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    • 75 11 ■HI iktCTQ^ tor jading hair ||P||| YOU WILL FIND f( Inecto Four-in One makes a wonderful CjL/ difference to dull or grey-touched hairi In a single, swift appli- A^£* "^v cation it lightens, r*£^ x\v f brightens, gives c >\ lfc| J glorious colour and jmY^Z^ lustrous, silky soft. J
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  • 603 12 This Lady shocks even the French -So undersixtvvns ure toM: 'Stay Out 9 suys Bulph Cooper THEY have done it at last! They have made a film about that most banned, most talked-about book m the world —"Lady Chatterley 's Lover." Ever since D.H. Lawrence first shocked peqple m 1928
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  • Article, Illustration
    107 12 PRESKNT day topic all over the world is man-made satellites, flvin X saucers, space-ships, etc. Tokyo gets m lirst with a \isilor from its nearest neighbour m the universe who disguises hers* if as a woman m an attempt to invade the earth vll this takes plare m the huge
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  • 141 12 DIRECTOR Curtis Bernhardt was all over the set of "Gaby" for the London under attack scenes m which Leslie Caron and John Kerr are trapped m a doorway as the entire street is blown to bits. The huge cameras, boom, water hoses, twenty-foot flames, fire engines, hose, running
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  • 196 12 THE STRANGER LOOKED INTO HER EYES AND SAID: GREEN-EYED, 23-year-old brownette Maureen Swanson was rated by topflight British photographer Baron as one ol his Beauties of the Year. When she danced at Sadler's Wells they rated her as a ballerina to be watched. Then, on vacation
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    • 48 12 lm PROVIDES THIS 4-YUAY SKIM CARE M^^^p-^ 1 Cools and stimulates at the same time "'HAZE LINE' SNOW 2™ R precious as your skin v^lSi^li/ X^ The mark of a BURROUGHS WELLCOME CO. product Sole Axents: JACKSON A CO- LTD.. Singapore. KnmU L«mpur, P«i*nr, Ipoh »nd JrswlUm. 8.N.8.
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  • 815 13  -  WILLIAM BARKLEY says ITS THE CHINA SHOP THAT COUNTS! I FEAR they are m a cold sweat m Strat-lord-on-Avon. Ah! the mutability of human affairs. To think that the future fame, fortune, and publicity of this excellent town depends on the stroke of a pick
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  • 144 13 JUST about the oddest item ever to be auctioned is up for offer near Keinis. It is the Fort of La Pompelle— a huge chalk and earthquake fortification of World War I. scene of four years fierce frontline fighting between the French and German armies. Starting price
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    • 51 13 -mm SCUUW ofaCfS^ r so delighted that they chose N? May Ung Lactogen when the time came for weaning. LACTOGEN contains added vitamin A to build I^S^Z ?st^ resistance against illness; vitamin Dto guard against rickets and iron to protect from anaemia. Wsm IACTOCEIi M n! FOR THE WORLD'S BABIES.
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  • 1307 14  - Quick-on-the-draw QUIN PETER CURRIE by I THE WORLD'S I I STRANGEST STORIES I He was as sword-happy as was his favourite stage character (at Falstaff. But he twice killed his man, yet lived to an over-ripe old age... JMAGINE that a man who is not only one of the leading
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    • 190 14 THE ONLY WAY TO CONTROL WOMEN IS TO SUP THEM DOWN |f jr y mr m^^^mm^Km '4&& Film actor Rossano Brazzi W^^T AW F m Mm Mm rj[ W explains why he says this m j m Mm Mm k an exclusive interview, and :i/V* how it can be done
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  • 326 15  - REDS PAY A BONUS OF £300 A CAME FOR BEATING BRITISH WALTER FARR i by COMMUNIST Go v v^ ernments are paying victory bonuses up to £300 a match to their footballers visiting Britain. The other day I heard the remarkable story of islav Luric, a forward m a Rumanian
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  • 158 15 Rutherford and MacKay hit out in Aussie trial CI'NTURIES by Ken MacKay (Queensland) (143) and John Rutherford (West Australia) who scored 113. highlighted t he first day's play of the Mailey-Taylor testimonial matcH m Sydney yesterday when lan JohnMtn's team batted all day to score 282 for four wickets. The
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  • 68 15 I>KITAIN'S Roger Becker eliminated Canada's Don Fontana from the men's singles of the Western India tennis championships 6 2. 6 3 m Bombay yesterday. He will meet Ramanathan Krishnan, India's number one, m the semi-final tomorrow. Australia's Jack Arkinstall won the other semi-final. beating Pakistan's Iftikhar Ahmed.
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  • 257 15 SOSC OLYMPIC LOTTERY PLAN IS REJECTED rpHE Government of Singa- I pure has rejected the licatton of the Singapore mpic and Sports Council •r ion to run a lotI aid of their Olympic Fjnd. Mr. C. C. Tan. president of S.O.S.C. received this mation yesterday. Oofernment'i reason for the refusal
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  • 92 15 iiiiiimiimmiiiiiimmmiiiiiiir: 14 Sqdn. RNZAF v. Naval Base, Tengah; RAAF v. Police, Tengah; S.( C- v. RAF Tenkah, p:»d..i ir St. Andrew's Old Boys v. REME, \Voods\ille: The Blavks v. R.N. Kranji, Naval Ba*«\ SCMVFR Brpwcrl»*s Kamponjj I pc "A": Qacenstofm v la.sir l':mjanff Assn; "B": l>uon:i Vista Rangers
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  • 89 15 One change is being made m the Singapore team to meet Stlangor m their triangular hockey game at Jalan Besar Stadium tomorrow. Sheikh Mansoor comes m as Insfcle left m place of Winckley. Theteam Isotherwise the same as the one which beat Negri 2-0 yesterday.
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  • 99 15 BOXING experts yesterday installed European bantam weiftal champion Mario d'Agata of Italy as a 6-5 favourite over Philippine bantamweight champion Little Ozar m their 10-round light at Rizal open-air arena on Jan 21 m Manila. They conceded the deaf-mute Italian had superior in-nghtin^,
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  • Article, Illustration
    123 15 MEET Hanako Sakamoto (above) a dainty little Japanese girl who stands sft. m her socks and makes her living by whirring around a stt^'l cage at 1"> m.p.h. on a motor-cycle. But careering round the "Globe of Death" is not new to her. Hanako who is 2(i
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  • 280 15 man Sappers back m the picture and Evans then cut I through for a further try under the posts which Gatting converted. In the 23rd minute substitute scrum-half McArthur broke away from a set scrum and passed to Phipps who sent Farrer over. Farrar failed to
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  • 408 16 HE GOT WINNING GOALS niHE inter-state hockey 1 Triangular between L*ngapore, Selangor. and N< "Aii Sembilan opened at Jalan Besar stadium yesterday with Singapore beating Negri 2—o. Selangor will play Negri this evening and, m the final game, Selangor will meet Singapore tomorrow. Singapore yesterday
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  • 243 16 VJ& WUSS.'SS arJ&ia« A"3tl»^: srs Bahawalpur s It was their second win m four matches, one having been drawn and one abandoned. Resuming their second innings at 55—6 yesterday, home side were all out for 76. as Lock and Moss each took a
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  • 54 16 rE Singapore Cricket Club's seven-a-side rugger competition for 1956 will start on Feb. 6. The semi-nnals and final will be held on Feb. 18. South Johor e and the Fijians have been invited to compete. Entries close on Jan. 2.6 and the draw will b,«
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  • 198 16 Ken MacKay is sure of place in tour team QUEENSLAND lefthander Ken MacKay put the glue on his labels for the English tour today with a splendid score of 143 m what is bojji a Test trial and a joint testimonial match to former internationals Arthur Mailey rind Johnnie Tayior.
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  • 73 16 PETER Thomson Australian holder of the British open golf championship, was two up on former rhampion Bob b sLock (South Africa) at the end of 36-hole m their 108 holes challenge WMtcY which began m Johannesburg yesterday. Thomson led by -six hole after the morning
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    • 556 16 CLASSIFIED ADS. ENGAGEMENT 20 Words $h (minimum). ISAAC-HYAMS. The engage-, ment is announced of Sylvia, only Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack l -,'r, to Walter. Twin Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Hyams of C'laremont, Perth DEATH 20 Words $6 (minimum). KOH. Mr. Koh Swee Hunt. aged 61. passed
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    • 8 16 It is 20 years since the first HERMES
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  • 535 17 O TURF JOTTINGS THE old year was generous to racing in Malaya. Stake money paid out by the four associated turf clubs amounted to S3.960.596 which was slightly more than the prt-vious year and the average amount per race was about $7,400 which still
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    49 17 H.W. "Timber" Wood became the champion amateur tipster for 1955 with a profit oi $21. Second was Mrs. Thclma Dennehy with a profit of $20. The FREE PKESS Cup which was offered for the competition will be presented to Mr. Wood on his return from holiday.
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  • 644 17 RICKY IS BEST BET AT IPOH TODAY: BACK SCHOLARSHIP FREE PRESS RACING CORRESPONDENT. OICKY stands out as the best bet in today's card at Ipoh. This Honey**way gelding is engaged in Race Three, a 5f. straight sprint for Class 4, Div. 2 horses. Wally Bagby, whose horses are in winning
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  • 23 17 TlfY THREE best bets for today are: CABARET (Race 1), TROW HILL (Race 4) and MAJIL A (Race 7). (RACE 7i
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  • 1056 18 RACE 1.-2.15: CLASS 5, DIV. 4-6 FURS. 1. 109 PERMITA DORMEZ II 7y brag (Chan Lai Hong) Manning 9.00 West 2. 505 SILVERIORT 7y chirg (Mrs. F. Atkinson Y.L. Lee) Bagby 8 10 Haxwi 3. 762 CINEMASCOPE II 5y cheg (Shaw Stable) Spencer. *JJ 4. 394
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  • 1001 18 Track form guide RACE ONE Cl. 5, Div. 4-6 Furs. PERMIT A DORMLZ II No track report. SILYERFORT: No track report. CINEMASCOPE II: 10-1-56 -Finished behind Big Andy at the finish of 3F in 42 HOLLYWOOD STAR: 10-1-56 -Came up the sti with Tide O'Gold; 12-1 Kept together with Tide
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  • 1803 20 CLASS 5, DIV. 4— FURS PERM1TA DORMEZ II: Disappointing in recent effoi'ts; shared honours with Chinemascope II over Kuala Lumpur 6f. in July with 9.0; any go:.. SILVERFORT: No recent form but working well; good going only. CINEMASCOPE H: Obvious choice on form; good second with
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